My family likes to play games. Board games, card games, doesn't matter what type. We are a rather competitive bunch.
My mom, my sister, and I always play Scene It when we are all together, since we are all movie-philes (I think Dad would rather shoot himself in the eye). Last year when we were in the middle of a hotly contested match I had to read someone a question from the cards.
"In this biopic featuring..."
I couldn't get the word "featuring" out before my Mom and my sister were hysterically laughing.
"What!???" I demanded.
They were so out of breath they couldn't answer.
Apparantly, I had made it through 28 years of my life thinking biopic was pronounced to rhyme with myopic or bionic. Buy-AWE-pic. Actually, and this probably makes a lot more sense, it's Buyoh-pic. Like what it is short for: biographical picture. However, if you google this word, you can see that I am not alone in my mispronunciation.
So what are some words that you mispronounce or have misheard? (Yes, Keenan, I know that you mispronounce "regularly." Refer to 15 min conversation on the way home from AC). And no, I never thought Jimi was talking about kissing some guy.
Actually, I have a confession...it's a long story though so i won't write it here, but remind me to tell you about my experiences with the word biopic. haha.
anyway, why i was responding to this was because i wanted to tell you about kissthisguy.com. it's a website of misheard lyrics....and some of them are hysterical. if you haven't already been there, you should explore it. there's a really funny lyrics alternative for "invisible touch", having to do with a certain fowl's excrement. sounds gross, but i swear it's funny.
Posted by: Sister Sarah | May 15, 2008 at 09:32 PM
ok - so i guess buy -op - ic is an alternate pronunciation, but still it comes from biography, so...
your dad says rune for ruin - i say it with 2 syllables and i have heard others say it with one syll, too.
Posted by: mom | May 16, 2008 at 10:36 AM
not that we need to continue this, but it comes from biography and we say "buy-ography" as opposed to "bio-graphy" so i think it should be buy-opic. ;)
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